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I think the OP's argument is that you also have to factor in hours played, and that, per player-hour, respectively movie-watcher-hour, the game is a lot cheaper

I think the OP's argument is that you also have to factor in hours played, and that, per player-hour, respectively movie-watcher-hour, the game is a lot cheaper. 300M movie watchers is about half a billion hours. If those 38M games all had only one player (probably fairly close) they only have to play the game for 15 hours on average to get at half a billion player hours. https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=27100 https://howlongtobeat.com/game?id=27100 claims it takes at least 49 hours to beat it, so it’s likely that the game was played for more hours than the movie was watched.

JulianK 5y ago
As an added layer I suspect that most people watch the entire movie but most people don't finish games. There's a percentage of players of course that will play a game for many hundreds or thousands of hours but the calculation is shakier when you take the falloff of players into account/ https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-donat-finish-games https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/gdc-most-players-don...